"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

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Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian best known for The Histories, his account of the Greco-Persian Wars. His work combines narrative history with ethnographic and geographic inquiry and is often treated as a foundational text of Western historiography.

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